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ADDED Jul 9, 2026
They Silenced Jefferson. Gandhi. MLK. Einstein. Here's Why. 17 min
They Silenced Jefferson. Gandhi. MLK. Einstein. Here's Why.
Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Paine. FDR. Eleanor Roosevelt.Simone Weil. Gandhi. W.E.B. Du Bois. MLK. Einstein.Helen Keller. Dorothy Day. Jesus of Nazareth.
ADDED Jul 7, 2026
Resistance Is Only Half the Equation
Resistance Is Only Half the Equation
When movements are at their most powerful, they not only withdraw cooperation from unjust systems, but build the capacity to live without them.
ADDED Jul 2, 2026
Reclaiming Energy: Public Pathways to Break the Fossil Fuel Cycle
Reclaiming Energy: Public Pathways to Break the Fossil Fuel Cycle
What if energy could be reclaimed as a global public good, free from profit-driven systems and rooted in justice? Here's how we can make that happen.
ADDED Jul 2, 2026
The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Capitalism’s hierarchy within workplaces contradicts democratic ideals. In practice, economic power undermines real democracy and freedom for most people.
ADDED Jul 1, 2026
Building Systems of Mutual Aid After Prison 10 min
Building Systems of Mutual Aid After Prison
The United States has the largest carceral population in the world. Legislation designed to feed the prison state has produced detrimental outcomes for former prisoners; 70% of returning...
ADDED Jun 29, 2026
Peter Thiel's Plan to Replace Democracy (and Profit of What Comes Next) 15 min
Peter Thiel's Plan to Replace Democracy (and Profit of What Comes Next)
Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.
ADDED Jun 27, 2026
The Mind of Love | Thich Nhat Hanh 6 min
The Mind of Love | Thich Nhat Hanh
Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh (excerpt from a talk originally recorded on 2014.08.28). Watch the full Dharma talk via Part 2.
ADDED Apr 15, 2026
How We Are Seeding the New World
How We Are Seeding the New World
A story that you can be part of — live it out with us!
ADDED Jun 26, 2026
How the 20th Century Almost Turned Out Very Differently
How the 20th Century Almost Turned Out Very Differently
Before Lenin consolidated power, Russian workers were running their own factories and peasants were seizing their own land. A decentralized, commons-based revolution was already underway...
ADDED Jun 26, 2026
21 Years Living Off-Grid on a Remote Island in a Self-Built Cabin & Homestead 31 min
21 Years Living Off-Grid on a Remote Island in a Self-Built Cabin & Homestead
Mark Young has been living a self-sufficient lifestyle on a remote off-grid island in British Columbia for the past 21 years. He has built 9 experimental buildings on his 20-acre...
ADDED Jun 26, 2026
Communist Nostalgia Explained 20 min
Communist Nostalgia Explained
Do Eastern Europeans actually want communism back? Polls show high nostalgia for the communist era, but is this the full picture? In this video, I break down whether the narrative that...
ADDED Jun 25, 2026
The Problem With Communism, From a Commons Perspective
The Problem With Communism, From a Commons Perspective
With communism you eventually get a Stalin; with capitalism you eventually get a Trump. Neither centralizes power in the hands of the people — the commons does.
ADDED Jun 25, 2026
Couple Builds Homestead of 12 Earthen Domes Linked Like Private Village 31 min
Couple Builds Homestead of 12 Earthen Domes Linked Like Private Village
Nicolette and Ian built 12 earthen domes in 12 months in the middle of the Chihuahuan desert — no construction experience required, no contractor, and no material more exotic than the...
ADDED Jun 25, 2026
Most of the World’s Wealth Belongs to All of Us. It’s Time to Start Collecting
Most of the World’s Wealth Belongs to All of Us. It’s Time to Start Collecting
As extreme inequality worsens and AI concentrates wealth into the hands of a small elite, insisting that the wealth generated by our collective inheritance be shared with all its...
ADDED Jun 25, 2026
The Return of the Common(er)s
The Return of the Common(er)s
Now is the time to transcend the failing systems around us—not by fighting them, but by quietly building something better. This closing article explores how an alternative social and...
ADDED Jun 23, 2026
The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them
The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them
As governments push costly pronatalist schemes to boost birthrates, the real solution, argues Nandita Bajaj, is to embrace declining fertility, expand women’s reproductive agency, and...
ADDED Jun 23, 2026
Asshole Culture: How Cruelty Is Becoming a Status Symbol 44 min
Asshole Culture: How Cruelty Is Becoming a Status Symbol
This video examines the rise and normalization of bullying, cruelty, and power fantasy in American culture. From the “Freedom 250” UFC spectacle at Trump's renovated White House to the...
ADDED Jun 23, 2026
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
From alpine pastures and salmon fisheries to offshore wind farms and online encyclopedias, commons take many forms. This article explores a wide range of real-world commons that span...
ADDED Jun 23, 2026
What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance
What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words we use and the images...
ADDED Jun 22, 2026
Israel’s Suicidal Rupture With the U.S.
Israel’s Suicidal Rupture With the U.S.
Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris.
ADDED Jun 22, 2026
The Grip: Saving Our Country One County at a Time 70 min
The Grip: Saving Our Country One County at a Time (2026)
The Grip shows what’s possible when recovery, accountability, and opportunity are combined inside our jail systems.
ADDED Jun 11, 2026
From Hollowed-Out Communities to Resilient Local Economies
From Hollowed-Out Communities to Resilient Local Economies
Decades of economic centralization have quietly hollowed out rural communities the world over. One initiative in New Zealand's Far North is rebuilding what was lost — local food systems...
ADDED Jun 11, 2026
We Sat AOC Down With Republican Voters. Can She Win Them Over? 15 min
We Sat AOC Down With Republican Voters. Can She Win Them Over?
We brought AOC to deep red Georgia to talk data centers.
ADDED Jun 10, 2026
How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video 9 min
How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video
I hated the process of making AI videos, but I couldn't ignore how powerful it was getting. These are the 5 tips I figured out as a filmmaker without surrendering my creative process...
ADDED Jun 9, 2026
FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World Cup as it kicks off in Mexico City on...
ADDED Jun 9, 2026
Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the Power of Big Tech
Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the Power of Big Tech
We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal.
ADDED Jun 9, 2026
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
I write this not as an enemy of the left but as someone who believes it has lost the thread of its own best tradition. That tradition is the democratic socialism of Eduard Bernstein, who...
ADDED Jun 5, 2026
We Face a Choice: Tyranny or Revolution
We Face a Choice: Tyranny or Revolution
MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create...
ADDED May 31, 2026
The Rise of the Global South
The Rise of the Global South
The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South.
ADDED May 27, 2026
“Democracy” Was Never Designed to Work — but Something Better Is Emerging
“Democracy” Was Never Designed to Work — but Something Better Is Emerging
The crisis of democratic legitimacy is a design problem—and better alternatives already exist
ADDED May 23, 2026
A Participatory Economy: A Post-Capitalist Model 8 min
A Participatory Economy: A Post-Capitalist Model
This is a video introducing the model for a post-capitalist economy, known as a Participatory Economy (also known as ‘Participatory Economics’ or ‘Parecon’). It is intended to give a...
ADDED May 23, 2026
Why Fascism Fails 106 min
Why Fascism Fails
Fascism keeps returning because, in moments of crisis, it makes a seductive promise: order, unity, national rebirth, a strong hand to cut through the chaos. The record of what it...
ADDED May 21, 2026
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of...
ADDED May 20, 2026
Yes, Things Are Falling Apart. Here's What That Actually Makes Possible.
Yes, Things Are Falling Apart. Here's What That Actually Makes Possible.
History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.
ADDED Mar 29, 2026
The Iran War Changes Everything: The World Will Never Be the Same 40 min
The Iran War Changes Everything: The World Will Never Be the Same
The US-Israeli war on Iran is transforming the geopolitical order, and could even unleash a global economic crisis. The conflict has caused the largest oil shock in history, disrupting...
ADDED Mar 28, 2026
No Kings Now, and Then More
No Kings Now, and Then More
No Kings is historically good at mobilizing. Radicals and revolutionaries need to be historically good at compatibly organizing.
ADDED Mar 26, 2026
The Secret Plan Behind the War on Iran 30 min
The Secret Plan Behind the War on Iran
The war on Iran is part of a larger attempt by the US empire to reverse the decline of Western hegemony and recolonize the Global South. After invading Venezuela, Donald Trump wants to...
ADDED Mar 26, 2026
The American Christian Death Cult 21 min
The American Christian Death Cult
There's a strain of American Christianity that doesn't just tolerate war — it worships it. Not as a tragic last resort, but as a sacred mission, a step on the prophetic road to...
ADDED Mar 25, 2026
Anarchism and the Promise of Revolution (V for Vendetta) 60 min
Anarchism and the Promise of Revolution (V for Vendetta)
The book V for Vendetta posits a battle for the soul of the country between Anarchism and Fascism, freedom and oppression. But what if revolution doesn't happen the way we think it does?
ADDED Mar 24, 2026
Does Israel Have the Right to Exist? Does Any Nation? 15 min
Does Israel Have the Right to Exist? Does Any Nation?
The concept of nations, with standardized language, culture, identity is brand new -- less than 250 years old. Einstein called nationalism a disease. The measles of mankind. Instead of...
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